Patrick Watt: How we must diversify to close the healthcare inequity gap

Over the past year, individuals, businesses and societies around the world have been challenged to adapt to extraordinary circumstances due to Covid-19. The pandemic has shone a harsh light on some of the health and wider inequalities that persist in our society, with the impact of the virus particularly detrimental on people living in areas of high deprivation, BAME communities and the elderly, amongst others. The pandemic has also shone a light on health inequity - the systematic and avoidable differences in health and wellbeing between different groups of people. Researchers rec...